I thought there was something about spirit children in your dogma. Where do they come from? Why would you be married in heaven if you didn’t have children? What would be the point?
Good questions.
Now just follow me a moment here; lots of assumptions going on.
First, assume that our critics are correct and that we will become creators of our own worlds/universes/whatever and produce lots of spirit babies. The charge that Mormon women will be eternally pregnant rather depends on that premise, after all.
Second, assume that our doctrine is that God has a physical body, and if we become like Him we TOO will have physical bodies. You know, 'flesh and bone," touchable, incorruptible bodies like the ones we have now; tangible. Real. (That is, by the way, doctrine for us.)
Third, assume that if we are to become like God…BE Gods, that is, that we will actually be as He is; creating and making. Now we believe that He created us as spirits…that our physical bodies are formed in mortality by the combining of male and female DNA, by growing in a mortal womb, being born and growing to adulthood in mortality.
THINK about this a minute. Just for a single, solitary precious moment…a mortal pregnant woman is going to give birth to another mortal person; real. Wouldn’t a resurrected woman with a perfect eternal body give birth to another being who is just as perfect, with that same body? How would that work if the offspring are SPIRITS?
God created SPIRITS. Yet you don’t consider that HE is ‘eternally pregnant,’ do you? You don’t consider that His creation of mankind is somehow demeaning, or 'bad for the woman.?" When HE (the male) creates all those spirits…mankind…the creation is admirable, worshipful…something to be celebrated. It’s only when you think women might share in it that it becomes a demeaning thing to do.
IF everything critics base their idea that Mormon women will be ‘eternally pregnant’ on is an actual belief of ours, then it is utterly asinine to figure that women will be eternally carrying spirit babies around in resurrected wombs. It is ludicrous. What WOULD happen, even if everything that the critics claim to be true IS true, is that Mormon women will share in the power of creation—something that is considered wonderful indeed when you think about a Male God doing it, but somehow becomes demeaning and ‘lesser’ when a woman does.
This attitude says volumes–but not about the sexism of the MORMONS. it is very clear, though, just how sexist, demeaning and ignorant those who view us are.
Creation–why IS it considered wonderful and something to be celebrated when a MAN does it, but is something distasteful and demeaning when a woman does?
There was a time when ‘secretary’ meant 'assistant…" a secretary was the guy being groomed to become the boss. It was considered to be an honorable, well paid job–a rather high rung on the employment ladder.
Ah, but then they invented the typewriter, and women were hired to be secretaries, and suddenly the job became "just a secretary.’ It became a dead end, demeaning, low paid job where a woman was subject to all sorts of demands. Why? Not because the JOB changed, but because a woman was doing it.
What you are talking about is the same thing. When God creates, you think it is a marvelous and glorious thing; awesome…but as soon as you think that a woman is going to be doing it? Suddenly it is a demeaning thing. “Good for the man, bad for the woman.”
Gaaaahhhhh…just once it would be nice if those who criticize us would actually follow the logic of their own knee jerk accusations and see where they go.
Eternally pregnant women. Great googly moogly.
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It makes more sense to me.
It just isn’t key to our salvation.
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